CLIMATE ACTION POLICY BUNGLE MUST BE FIXED

Wednesday, 08 December 2010 11:30

The Keneally Government can’t afford to go to the state election with a bungled Climate Action Plan and a gutted Climate Change Fund, Total Environment Centre said today.

“The Opposition has discovered the fossil fuel dinosaurs in the government want to raid the Fund to pay for the solar feed-in tariff and kill-off important climate action programs.  On top of the recent excessive lowering of the feed-in tariff – this is a real political and policy disaster for the Labor Government,” said Jeff Angel, Executive Director of the TEC.

“The tariff arrangement for development of the solar power industry is rightly part of the electricity generation and consumption budget.  The Climate Change Fund must be kept intact for a variety of other policies so that a range of related problems and low carbon solutions can be supported.”

“Where are the political and policy brains in this government?”

”If NSW is to have any hope of being a leader in climate policy and not a laggard with increasing levels of emissions – then the Premier should step in and sort this out.  A crippled climate policy and depleted fund is not in anyone’s interest,” said Mr Angel.